“The Book of Stories ‘A Fox Lived in a Little House’” is doomed to succeed with readers who are sensitive to nuances and look for small, precious details in the text. Nobody here will wrap you in sweet blankets of so-called kindness. Nobody will lay out a predictable solitaire: here is our nice lady with clubs, and here’s how the wicked ladies of spades or jacks of diamonds treated her—oh dear. On the contrary—